IMPLICATION OF CYBERCRIME AMONGST STUDENT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BENIN (UNIBEN), BENIN CITY, EDO STATE, NIGERIA

The study sought access the implications of cybercrime amongst students in the University of Benin. It is an empirical survey of the students of the University of Benin. Survey research design was adopted for the study. The study was conducted University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria. The population of the study comprised of students from the tertiary institution. Nassiuma formula was used to cumulate the sample size from the entire population and this gave a total of 100 respondents that constituted the sample size for the study. The Main Instrument used in this study was a questionnaire titled “Implications of cybercrime amongst students in University of Benin". The researcher subjected the data generated for this study to appropriate statistical techniques such as percentage analysis for answering the research question. The study revealed that there is significant influence of the implications of students involvement in cybercrime. Hence, the study concluded that certain precautionary measures should be taken by students while using the internet which will assist in challenging this major threat Cybercrime. One of the recommendations was that federal and state government, as well as educational communities should intensify campaigns on cybercrime awareness among Nigerian undergraduate students in order to make them understand that cybercrime is a criminal offence punishable under the criminal act with attendant adverse consequence of jeopardizing their educational accomplishment when conviction.